woodblock
verbEtymology From wood + block.
1
To print with a woodcut.
2
To floor or pave with blocks of wood.
woodblock
nounEtymology From wood + block.
1
A woodcut.
2
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow block of wood struck with a drumstick.
3
Media, Printing, Publishing A wooden block used as a printing form.
- In 1569 Choe Bu’s grandson, Yu Hi-chun, published the book in a wood block edition at Jeongju, Pyeongan Province.2006, Kim Tae Joon, “Literature from Exiles”, in Lee Kyong-hee, transl., Korean Travel Literature, Ewha Womans University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 106:
4
Hobbies, Lifestyle, Philately The emergency issue of the Cape triangles, printed in 1861.
- Derived terms
- woodblockist, woodblock printing